Apple to Begin iPhone Production This Quarter
Apple Inc. plans to begin production of a new iPhone similar in size and shape to its current one in the second quarter of the year, according to people familiar with the device's production, teeing u...
Barons of Bitcoin: the Tokyo-based powerhouse that controls the world's virtual money
Mt. Gox handles 76 percent of global Bitcoin trading, which is why it's taking the lead on regulatory compliance — Mt. Gox chief marketing officer Gonzague Gay-Bouchery, left; CEO Mark Karpeles, rig...
Mobile app deep-linking and new Cards
Twitter Cards are being used by more than 10,000 developers, mobile apps and websites to richly represent content on Twitter, including article summaries, user-posted photos, videos, songs, and more. ...
Microsoft's Windows Blue looks to be named Windows 8.1
Summary: The Windows Blue operating system update is likely to be named “Windows 8.1” when it hits later this summer, according to sources. — Microsoft officials supposedly have decided on the final...
Yes, Google Says It's Having Problems Listing iTunes Preview Pages
Yes, it is harder to find pages to iTunes apps in Google. But no, the company says, it's not part of some nefarious plot. Rather, Google's having technical problems gathering iTunes Preview pages, a...
Google engineers find a way to filter robocalls the way Gmail filters spam
Two Mountain View employees were among the winners in the FTC's crowdsourced challenge — The anti-robocall solution proposed by two Google engineers. — The Federal Trade Commission just announced ...
Google changes how it measures Android version adoption, sees uptick in Jelly Bean devices
Google routinely gives monthly numbers breaking out the adoption of various versions of Android, but the company has now changed the way it calculates those numbers — providing a distinctly different ...
T-Mobile Sending Out Carrier Update Enabling LTE For Unlocked iPhone Devices On April 5th?
Update: As some of you have mentioned, there is no mention of LTE specifically in the body of the image below. Word from our sources is that this carrier update will enable LTE and it makes sense …
Firefox 20 arrives with per-window private browsing, new download manager, separate plugin closing, and more
Mozilla on Tuesday officially launched Firefox 20 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The improvements include per-window private browsing, a new download manager in the Firefox toolbar …
OMGPOP CEO Dan Porter Departs Zynga; Will Be Replaced by VP of Mobile Sean Kelly
Mr. Porter and Ghostface Killah (Photo: Twitter) — Dan Porter, the former CEO of New York-based gaming company OMGPOP which was purchased by Zynga in March of last year, has left the company, accord...
The Silent Partner
Jason Goldman helped build Google and Twitter into what they are today — but few outside of tech's inner circle know his name . On shunning the spotlight in a star-obsessed industry. — Biz Stone, J...
NVIDIA's GeForce 700M Family: Full Details and Specs
With spring now well under way and the pending launch of Intel's Haswell chips, OEMs always like to have “new” parts across the board, and so once more we're getting a new series of chips from NVIDIA,...
Downtown Project Buys 100 Teslas To Launch Project 100, A Car-Sharing Service In Las Vegas
Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh's Downtown Project just announced a new venture called Project 100, a complete transportation system for Las Vegas. For a monthly subscription fee, users will be able to borrow ...
Following iPad release, Google rolls out free Android and iPhone versions of Quickoffice for Apps customers
Google on Wednesday announced the release of Quickoffice for Android and iPhone, available gratis for all its Apps for Business customers. If you fit the bill …
Facebook Photo Phenom Instagram Gets a Business Lead to Scale Its Operations (and Presumably Revenue)
According to sources, Facebook has moved well-regarded exec Emily White to a new job as director of business operations at its Instagram mobile photo-sharing unit.
Twitter Relaunches Its Twitter For Business Site With More Content, New Video
Twitter has relaunched its Twitter For Business website with a new look, plus additional content that Twitter hopes will help businesses learn how to build a successful presence there.
Has Facebook Lost Faith in Social Ads?
After Once Vowing to Transform Online Advertising, It's Increasingly Embracing Standard Offerings — Has Facebook lost faith in the potential of social ads and its mantra of “word-of-mouth marketing ...
Zynga's Big Bet on Real-Money Gaming to Launch This Week in the U.K.
It's about time Zynga doubled down. — The company will roll out two real-money versions of its casino and poker games in the next few days, marking the gaming giant's first offerings in the online g...
Law Firms Tout Advantage of Secrecy in Cyberbreach Investigations
Heartland Payment General Counsel Charles Kallenbach: 'There's a need to keep that information private.' — When Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. discovered in October that a hacker had breached its s...
Japan's Answer to Jeff Bezos Sets Sights on Amazon, America
When the World Wide Web first became a big deal in the mid-1990s, Hiroshi Mikitani was a 31-year-old executive with a Harvard Business School degree striding down the traditional Japanese path to succ...
Elissa Murphy, One of Yahoo's High-Profile Tech Execs, Heads to Go Daddy as CTO (Memo Time!)
One of Yahoo's top women execs, Elissa Murphy, who is VP of engineering for cloud services, is departing the Silicon Valley Internet giant to become CTO and head of platform efforts at Go Daddy, said ...
Tableau Files For IPO As Strong Run For Business Software Continues
Tableau Software is set to hold its initial public offering, according to an S-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission today, continuing a strong period of market debuts for enterprise sof...
Sorry Apple gets respect in China after tabloid trial
(Reuters) - With its rare apology, Apple Inc went from pariah to praiseworthy in the eyes of China's state-controlled media, a lesson for other foreign firms not to underestimate the speed and power o...
Microsoft's Windows Blue looks to be named Windows 8.1
Summary: The Windows Blue operating system update is likely to be named “Windows 8.1” when it hits later this summer, according to sources. — Microsoft officials supposedly have decided on the final...
Google Faces Action in EU After Failing to Fix Privacy Policy
Google Inc. (GOOG) faces possible fines after six European Union data protection regulators started “coordinated” enforcement measures over the company's failure to fix flaws in a new privacy policy.
Facebook's Sandberg May Be Deposed in Antitrust Case
Facebook Inc. (FB) Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg is scheduled to be questioned in a lawsuit alleging that seven technology companies broke antitrust laws by agreeing to not recruit from each...
Verizon, AT&T could partner to take over Vodafone — report
report — The deal would see Verizon buy back the value Vodafone owns in its company, while AT&T would acquire all non-U.S. assets. — Verizon Wireless CEO Dan Mead — Verizon and AT&T could be team...
Yahoo Mail adds support for Dropbox attachments to web client
Yahoo just announced a new partnership with Dropbox that lets you attach files stored with the popular cloud service to outbound emails. The company is touting the integration as yet another way it's...
Game of Thrones Pirates Break BitTorrent Swarm Record
As expected, the new season premiere of Game of Thrones has generated quite a bit of activity on various BitTorrent sites. — Hundreds and thousands of downloaders went out to grab a copy of the show...
Funny or Die Releases Teaser Trailer for ‘iSteve’
Last month, comedy site Funny or Die announced that it will be releasing iSteve, a 60-75 minute movie based on the life of Steve Jobs, on April 15. The film stars Justin Long, who gained fame among A...
Sign o' the Times: Twitter gets a Vine copyright complaint from Prince's record label
Twitter has been served a DMCA copyright complaint for content that was published using the Vine video platform it acquired and launched earlier this year. — Twitter openly shares how many DMCA take...
Smartisan OS unveiled in China, takes a fresh approach to Android UI design
Following the likes of Meizu and Xiaomi, another star is born in the Chinese smartphone market. In fact, some may already know the man behind this new Android-based Smartisan OS: Luo Yonghao, a self-...
Rosetta Stone acquires Livemocha for $8.5m to move its language learning platform into the cloud
Computer-assisted language teaching software Rosetta Stone announced today that it has acquired Livemocha, an online service for language-learning communities, for $8.5 million.
USPTO reaffirms invalidation of Apple patent in Samsung suit
Patent office issues a Final Office Action on Apple's “bounce-back” patent, a key patent to Apple's case. — The damages Samsung owes Apple in their landmark patent lawsuit could be reduced even furt...
HTC One coming to AT&T and Sprint on April 19th for $199.99, will beat the Galaxy S4 to the market
The HTC One, the company's new flagship phone and would-be savior, will be available on AT&T starting on April 19th for $199.99. That's a good $50 less than was rumored yesterday …
Startup Nebula Launches a Plug-and-Play Cloud Computer
Here's a name I haven't heard in a while: Anso Labs. — This was the cloud computing startup that originated at NASA, where the original ideas for OpenStack, the open source cloud computing platform ...
ANALYST: All Of My Clients Think There's A Bitcoin Bubble, But A ‘Perfect Storm’ Is Causing Prices To Surge
It's probably fair to say that the big rise in Bitcoin this year has caught many by surprise. — Today, the value of one Bitcoin hit $100. In early March, they were trading below $35.
Google Adds Twilio For The First Voice And Messaging APIs Available Through The Google Cloud Platform And App Engine
Twilio today is taking one more step in its bid to become the most ubiquitous voice and messaging API available to developers: it is announcing a partnership with Google's Cloud Platform.
Kobo e-readers go on sale online in the US and Canada as the company crosses 13m users
Kobo, the Rakuten-owned hardware maker, has begun selling its range of e-readers online in the US and Canada after it announced that the devices, which include its flagship Kobo Touch …
Microsoft Launches Windows QuickStart Kit For Mac Developers, A $25 USB Stick With Windows 8 Pro And Parallels For Mac
Earlier this year, Microsoft launched modern.IE to help developers ensure that their sites work well with old and new versions of Internet Explorer.